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The objective of the Expanding Community
Approaches in Conflict Situations in Southern Thailand
Project is to contribute to confidence-building between
communities and... Show More + sub-district authorities in Southern
Thailand through participatory local development approaches
in six sub-districts, and through capacity building of
selected local government officials as well as selected
civil society networks and organizations. Some of the
negative impacts and mitigation measures include: a) maximum
participation of all stakeholders in the environmental
assessment and compliance monitoring is encouraged; b)
complementation with other projects of the government
especially in environmental protection and institutional
strengthening should be pursued; c) periodic project
progress reports should also contain the status of
compliance with environmental conditionality; d) all project
staff, facilitators, consultants are oriented and trained in
the various environmental and social safeguard procedures;
and e) all project staff, facilitators, and consultants work
closely with local government units in charge of local
regulations, environment and social issues to ensure that
the project comply with government regulations and have no
adverse environmental and social impacts. Show Less -

The objective of the Expanding Community
Approaches in Conflict Situations in Southern Thailand
Project for Thailand is to contribute to confidence-building
between... Show More + communities and sub-district authorities in southern
Thailand through participatory local development approaches
in six sub-districts, and through capacity building of
selected local government officials as well as selected
civil society networks and organizations. Negative impacts
include: loss of land, loss of house or building, and loss
of plants. Mitigation measures include: (1) replacing land
with other land or of equal productivity, or with other
productive assets of equal value; (2) providing material and
labor to replace permanent structures that were removed; and
(3) providing compensation in kind for destroyed or damaged plants. Show Less -

Support for the Urban Poor (SUP) has
prepared a simple policy framework because details and scope
of the sub-project activities to be covered by the grant are
not known... Show More + in detail at this stage since the project follows
a Community Driven Development (CDD) approach. The framework
will guide the process of land acquisition, should it prove
necessary during implementation of the grant activities. The
guiding principle of the framework is that no family will
experience a material reduction in their income, living
standards, or livelihoods as a result of subproject
implementation. A summary of the procedures will be spelled
out in the project's Operations Manual and the terms of
reference of community facilitators, and the project will
provide both internal and independent monitoring of their
implementation. If no agreement can be reached with the
community the sub-project activities will not be
implemented; (i) for voluntary contributions, the name of
the donor and details of the donation; (ii) for compensated
assets, the names of the persons receiving compensation, and
details of the type of compensation, such as seen in the
table below;(iii) if applicable the decision not to proceed
with sub-project implementation.(iv) in addition, the
minutes will contain the signatures of the affected persons
and the community leaders. There will be notes about
complaints made by the affected Show Less -

Assessing the impact of the Thai Social
Investment Fund (SIF), this study strengthens understanding
of social capital in Thailand and presents evidence about
how community... Show More + driven development (CDD) approaches can
enhance it. The study presents a set of indicators for
several dimensions of social capital that reflect the Thai
context, though they have broader regional applicability.
Further, it uses an innovative and pragmatic mixed-methods
evaluative approach to collect and analyze evidence about
social capital characteristics in treatment villages that
participated in SIF and matched comparison villages that did
not. Finally, from that evidence it concludes that SIF acted
both as a mechanism to select villages with pre-existing
cooperative norms and as an effective instrument to enhance
leadership, networks, and villagers' capability to
exercise voice to formal authorities. Show Less -

This publication was commissioned and
published in the hope that descriptions of strategies,
successes, and setbacks in promoting stronger tobacco
control policies around... Show More + the world would be of wide interest
and might be useful to people grappling with similar issues.
As participants in academic, advocacy, and policy meetings
on tobacco control, we have been struck by the impact of
real-life stories and examples. We have been educated and
edified by many excellent presentations and discussions of
the principles, practice, and impact of tobacco control
policy - but what we remember most clearly, long after, are
the stories. We have seen rooms come alive with interest and
crackle with energy when people who had been at the center
of efforts to develop tobacco control policy related their
experiences. The case studies in this book are addressed to
a wide set of readers who share an interest in health issues
and policy - people in non-governmental organizations,
community activists, scientists, decision-makers, health
officials, and members of the public. Each story is set in
the unique historical, cultural, and political environment
of a particular country, but there are common threads and
shared lessons that can be applied and adapted in many other
countries and circumstances. Show Less -

The objective of the report was to
assess the perspectives of civil society and community
groups in terms of environmental and natural resource
management in Thailand.... Show More + Specific aspects related to this
were the assessment of the main environmental issues; the
management decision making process; and people's
awareness of environmental issues. A number of consultations
were made with representatives and groups from Thai civil
society. The first stage was to interview twelve of the
leading environmental thinkers in Thailand to get their
views and opinions on the current factors affecting the
environment in Thailand at present, and how these factors
may change in the future. The second stage was to have a
one-day consultation workshop with representatives from
conservation groups, the media, the senate, donor agencies
and research institutes to assess current forms of
cooperation and partnership, the level and type of
Governmental involvement, the use of knowledge, the roles of
media and donor agencies. The third stage was to have a
two-day consultation workshop with civil society groups, Non
Governmental Organizations (NGOs), media groups and donor
agencies in order to assess the present and future
management approaches to issue-based problems and their
solutions. The final stage was to synthesize all these ideas
into a usable form consisting of a policy development matrix table. Show Less -

The EGAT (Electricity Generating
Authority of Thailand) Investment Program Support Project
will finance investments for power generation and
transmission facilities.... Show More + These environmental impact
assessments cover the subprojects -- a) Ractchaburi Power
Plant; b) Krabi Thermal Power Plant; c) Wang Noi Combined
Cycle Power Plant Project; and d) the transmission systems.
A resettlement plan has been prepared for the households
affected. In terms of air quality, the impact of dust during
construction will be mitigated by water sprays. Emissions
from construction equipment and vehicular transportation
will be controlled by reducing vehicular speed. Sulfur
Dioxide will be controlled by an 80 percent efficient Flue
Gas Desulfurization System (FGD). Major construction
activities will be conducted in dry seasons to reduce
siltation to the nearby rivers. Water quality affected by
suspended solid in the nearby river will be improved by
constructing temporary weir to trap sediment. Salt water
intrusion into the groundwater will be mitigated by
controlling the discharge rate and exploring other water
resources. Noise pollution will be minimized by using noise
control equipment, creating noise barriers, and publicizing
the time for blasting. The threat of thermal pollution to
aquatic life will be mitigated by building a water reservoir
to reduce water temperature before it is discharged into the
river. Wastewater will be pretreated before it is discharged
into the water way. A screening structure will be placed at
the inlet of the intake pipe at the water intake pump
station so that young fish, fish eggs, and floating weeds
will not be pumped into the intake. Show Less -

The EGAT (Electricity Generating
Authority of Thailand) Investment Program Support Project
will finance investments for power generation and
transmission facilities.... Show More + These environmental impact
assessments cover the subprojects -- a) Ractchaburi Power
Plant; b) Krabi Thermal Power Plant; c) Wang Noi Combined
Cycle Power Plant Project; and d) the transmission systems.
A resettlement plan has been prepared for the households
affected. In terms of air quality, the impact of dust during
construction will be mitigated by water sprays. Emissions
from construction equipment and vehicular transportation
will be controlled by reducing vehicular speed. Sulfur
Dioxide will be controlled by an 80 percent efficient Flue
Gas Desulfurization System (FGD). Major construction
activities will be conducted in dry seasons to reduce
siltation to the nearby rivers. Water quality affected by
suspended solid in the nearby river will be improved by
constructing temporary weir to trap sediment. Salt water
intrusion into the groundwater will be mitigated by
controlling the discharge rate and exploring other water
resources. Noise pollution will be minimized by using noise
control equipment, creating noise barriers, and publicizing
the time for blasting. The threat of thermal pollution to
aquatic life will be mitigated by building a water reservoir
to reduce water temperature before it is discharged into the
river. Wastewater will be pretreated before it is discharged
into the water way. A screening structure will be placed at
the inlet of the intake pipe at the water intake pump
station so that young fish, fish eggs, and floating weeds
will not be pumped into the intake. Show Less -